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Anyone driving anything different to the norm?

I have a VW caravelle TDI (Eurovan in NA) running a twin tank veg oil conversion (Grease car in NA)

I'm going to teach myself how to make biodeisel so I don't have to buy pump diesel for starting and stopping.

I'm luck here in Chamonix - quite a few restaurants are happy to give me their used oil - gives you a good insight into which ones NOT to eat in

i use an e-bicycle to get to work...does that count?

I tele-commute 4 days a week . Here's a company that sells conversion kits not to far from me http://www.greasewrench.com/

Some info http://www.greasecar.com/article/one-ma ... -mans-fuel

Good luck.

Maybe this will be my next project? Sounds interesting. Will any Diesel engine do?

@Idris: do you have the list of restaurants? :-)

OAC wrote:Maybe this will be my next project? Sounds interesting. Will any Diesel engine do?

Yes any diesel will do - the more complex (new) your engine, the more sophisticated (precise) the system has to be.

Cold veg oil in a common rail diesel at -5C will do a lot of expensive damage quickly.

OAC wrote: @Idris: do you have the list of restaurants? :-)

Yes but it is only available by voice or sms not interweb

You might have heard of this book already, it's called 'run your diesel vehicle on biofuels - a do it yourself manual'

Jon Starbuck and Gavin D J Harper

ISBN 978-0-07-160043-9

I shared a flat one season with a friend with a diesel ute than ran on vegetable oil. We used to ski down from the mid mountain restaurant with 10L tins of oil in each hand!
The neighbours in the apartment building didn't really appreciate his purification process going on in the foyer!

I ran vegetable oil in my H1 a couple times. That count?